Book chapters

Celayne Heaton Shrestha (2010) 'Activists and Development in Nepal' in ed David Gellner Varieties of Activist Experience: Civil Society in South Asia. Sage Governance, Conflict and Public Action Series

David Lewis (2010) 'Disciplined Activists, Unruly Brokers? Exploring the Boundaries between Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs), Donors and the State in Bangladesh' in ed David Gellner Varieties of Activist Experience: Civil Society in South Asia. Sage Governance, Conflict and Public Action Series

Mackintosh and Mujinja, P.G.M. (forthcoming) 'Markets and policy challenges in access to essential medicines for endemic disease' in Journal of African Economics

Mackintosh and Mujinja, P.G.M. (forthcoming) 'Commercial influence and global nongovernmental public action in health and pharmaceutical policies' in International Journal of Health Services

Chaudhuri, S., Mackintosh M and Mujinya, P.G.M (forthcoming) 'Indian generics, producers, access to essential medicines and local production in Africa: an argument with reference to Tanzania' in European Journal of Development Research

Werbner, Pnina 'Appropriating Social Citizenship: Women's Labour, Poverty and entrepreneurship in the Manual Workers Union of Botswana in Journal of South African Studies, 36:3, September 2010

NGPA Research Papers

Editor: Professor Jude Howell

The Non-Governmental Public Action Research Paper (NGPARP) series provides a vehicle for disseminating recent and ongoing research of researchers based at, or linked to the NGPA Programme. It aims to reflect the range and diversity of non-governmental public action, and understand the impact of public action.

Research Paper 1Promoting Institutional Change in Post-Soviet Armenia: Is Social Capital the 'Missing Link'?Babken V. Babajanian

Research Paper 2Engaging with civil society: the democratic perspectiveNeera Chandhoke

Research Paper 4Physical Religious Spaces in the Lives of Rajasthani Village Women: Religion as an analytical and practical approach in development.Tamsin Bradley

Research Paper 5'Shell to Sea' in Ireland: Building Social Movement PotencyKat Salter and Sian Sullivan

Research Paper 6Cultures of Participation: Young people's engagement in the public sphere in Brazil
Udi Mandel Butler (Oxford University and CIESPI) & Marcelo Princeswal (CIESPI)

Research Paper 7Resisting, Ameliorating, or Perpetuating the Dark Side? Non-Governmental Public Action, Communicative Rationalities, and the Struggle for Democratisation in Israel's Planning
Dr Joseph Leibovitz

Research Paper 8Workers' Factory Takeovers and new State Policies in Argentina: Towards the Institutionalisation of Non-Governmental Public Action?
Ana C Dinerstein

Research Paper 9The Politics of Unemployment: Employment policy, the Unemployed Workers Organisations and the State in ArgentinaAna C Dinerstein

Research Paper 10The Role of Co-operatives in Poverty Reduction: Network PerspectivesSimmons and Burchill

Research Paper 11The rise and fall of collective public action in the aftermath of the Gujarat Earthquake of 2001Edward Simpson

Research Paper 21Aid, Civil Society and the State in Kenya since 9/11Jeremy Lind and Jude Howell

Research Paper 22Trade Unions in Russia, China and Vietnam: From Governmental to non-Governmental Public ActorsSimon Clarke and Tim Pringle

Research Paper 23Was there discrimination in the distribution of resources after the earthquake in Gujarat? Imagination, epistemology, and the state in western IndiaEdward Simpson

Research Paper 24'Civil Society With Guns Is Not Civil Society': Aid, Security And Civil Society In AfghanistanJeremy Lind and Jude Howell

Research Paper 25Changing donor policy and practice on civil society in the post-9/11 aid contextJeremy Lind and Jude Howell

Research Paper 26Representative Democracy As Mediated Politics: Rethinking The Links Between Representation And ParticipationEnrique Peruzzotti

Research Paper 27'We Make Progress Because We are Lost': Critical Reflections on Co-producing Knowledge as a Methodology for Researching Non-Governmental Public ActionJenny Pearce

Research Paper 28Polarisation of a Civil Society Space between Secularists and Islamists by Design: The Case of BangladeshDr. Tasmia Mesbahuddin

Research Paper 29The (Im)possibilities of Autonomy. Social Movements In and Beyond Capital, the State and DevelopmentSteffen Böhm, Ana Dinerstein and André Spicer

Research Paper 30Understanding the dynamics of relationships between government agencies and non-state providers of basic services: Key issues emerging from the literatureKelly Teamey and Claire McLoughlin

Research Paper 35Acts Of Faith: Civil Society and the Policy Process in Ghana and two Indian StatesJames Manor

Research Paper 36The Snail and the Good Government. A critique of 'civil society' by the Zapatista movement, MexicoAna C Dinerstein

Research Paper 38Research on relationships between government agencies and non-state providers of basic services: A discussion on the methods, theories and typologies used and ways forward
Whose Public Action? Analysing Inter-sectoral Collaboration for Service Delivery
Kelly Teamey

Research Paper 41Co-Production: Do Faith-Based Organisations offer a potential?Masooda Bano

NGPA Conference Papers

NCVO/ESRC NGPA seminar series: June 2008-March 2009

The following reports summarise the presentations and discussions at four jointly organised seminars which took place at NCVO. The seminars aimed to bring together practitioners, academics and policy-makers, providing them with the opportunity to share insights and take part in a stimulating discussion

'Mubarak in the international arena: the interplay of international and internal factors in regime crisis' in Philip Marfleet and Rabab el-Mahdi (eds.), Egypt: the moment of change, (Zed), forthcoming.

'Democracy in movement? Iraq 1945 - 1959' in preparation for a collection to be edited by Stephanie Cronin and Nur Masalha following a workshop entitled 'The Politics of Elections and the Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East: Perspectives from Within and Below'.

'Democratic and bureaucratic leadership in the Egyptian labour movement: contrasting patterns of industrial conflict, 1945-54 and 2006-7', NGPA working paper series

'The role of co-operatives in poverty reduction: network perspectives', presented at ICA International Research Forum, Dourdan France, Oct 2006. Article based on this paper invited for submission for special edition of Journal of Socio-Economics, Jan 2007

'Co-operatives and Poverty Traps' conference paper for the ICA Regional Conference on the role of co-operatives in poverty alleviation in Asia (Hanoi, Vietnam, March 2006)

Working paper for the Programme on 'Member-owned businesses; some problems of definition', material from which will be submitted as a Journal article to Voluntas.

Co-operatives and poverty reduction: Evidence from Sri Lanka and Tanzania. by Johnston Birchall and Richard Simmons, Co-operative College 2009. For more information please see the Co-operative College website.

'Stitching up the fragmented city: citizenship and public action in Rio de Janeiro.' Paper to be presented at the American Anthropological Association annual conference in November 2006, San Jose. The paper will be submitted for publication over the summer

Research Practitioner Fellow, Marcelo Princeswall, presented a paper at a conference on Youth in Brazil (JUBRA - Juventude Brasileira) in October 2006

'Freedom, Revolt and Citizenship: Three pillars of identity for youngsters living on the streets of Rio de Janeiro.' Forthcoming 2007 in journal Childhood.

Simon Clarke, Chang-Hee Li and Do Quynh Chi, 'From Rights to Interests: The Challenge of Industrial Relations in Vietnam', Journal of Industrial Relations, Spring 2007. These papers draw on and acknowledge the first stage of the research in Vietnam.

Simon Clarke, 'The Changing Character of Strikes in Vietnam' Post-Communist Economies, 18, 3, 345-61, September 2006 and Simon Clarke, Chang-Hee Li and Do Quynh Chi) 'From Rights to Interests: The Challenge of Industrial Relations in Vietnam', Journal of Industrial Relations, Spring 2007. These papers draw on and acknowledge the first stage of the research in Vietnam.

Jude Howell, 'The Global War on Terror, Development and Civil Society', Paper presented to the Seventh International Conference of the International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR), National Institute of Development and Administration (NIDA), Bangkok, 9-12th July 2006.

Journal article 'The Global War on Terror, development and civil society' in Journal of International Development 2006 Volume 18, Issue 1, Date: January 2006, Pages: 121-135

Papers for ASA Conference April 2006 and ISTR Conference July 2006

Howell,J and Lind,J Counter-Terrorism, Aid and Civil Society Before and After the War on Terror. Palgrave Macmillan, Sept 2009

Feature article by David Lewis, 'Why do people cross the sector divide?' Third Sector, 6 February 2008.

Coverage of the research in 'Taking action', Social Sciences, ESRC, Autumn 2007.

Lewis, D. (2006) "Home or away?: Narratives of choice-making in the life-work histories of agency personnel in the UK within domestic 'voluntary sector' and international 'non-governmental' agencies". Presented at the Association of Social Anthropologists (ASA) Diamond Jubilee Conference, Keele University, 10-13th April.

Lewis, D. (2006) "Crossing the boundaries between third sector and state: Reflections from an ongoing life-work history research project in Philippines, Bangladesh and UK". Paper presented to the Seventh International Conference of the International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR), National Institute of Development and Administration (NIDA), Bangkok, 9-12th July 2006.

A book proposal on anthropological perspectives on the third sector, much of which would draw upon the present research project, has recently been submitted by Lewis to Pluto Press for their well-established series on 'Anthropology, Culture and Society'.

In addition, a working paper has been produced as part of the project by Dr Natal in Mexico: Natal, A. (2006) 'Brief revision of Government-CSO relations in Mexico'. Documentos de Discusión sobre el Tercer Sector, N. 36. Zinacantepec, México: El Colegio Mexiquense, A. C.; Working Papers Series of the Programa Interdisciplinario de Estudios del Tercer Sector.

Lewis, D. (2008, in press) 'Crossing the boundaries between 'third sector' and state: life-work histories from Philippines, Bangladesh and the UK.' Third World Quarterly, Volume 29(1).

Lewis, D. (2008, in press) 'Using Life Histories in Social Policy Research: The Case of Third Sector/Public Sector Boundary Crossing'. Journal of Social Policy. (accepted Oct 2007)

The preliminary findings paper that was originally presented at the International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR) Conference in Bangkok (Jul 9th -12th 2006) was refereed by ISTR and accepted as a Conference Working Paper, and published on the ISTR website in September 2006.

Chaudhuri, S. (forthcoming 2007) 'The gap between successful innovation and access to its benefits' in Mackintosh, M., Chataway, J. and Wuyts, M. (eds.) 'Promoting innovation, productivity and industrial growth and reducing poverty: bridging the policy gap' Special Issue of the European Journal of Development Research (forthcoming 2007)

Morse, S. and McNamara, N. (2006). Analysing institutional partnerships in development: A contract between equals or a loaded process? Progress in Development Studies (accepted).

Morse, S. and McNamara, N. (2005). 'Promoting sustainability: partnerships in the Catholic Church development chain.' Geographical Paper no. 177, Department of Geography, University of Reading, Reading, UK. Available for download at the University of Reading website.

Morse, S. and McNamara, N. Analysing partnership in the Catholic Church development chain. In progress. To be submitted to the Journal of Development Studies

Stephen Morse, Nora McNamar. Creating a greater partnership: analysing partnership in the Catholic Church development chain. Area (OnlineEarly Articles). doi:10.1111/j.1475-4762.2007.00784.x

Jenny Pearce is preparing a paper to present at the International European Conference of Americanists in Brussels in April, and Heather Blakey and Lucy Brill are presenting papers at the Political Studies Association the same month.

Herbert: 'Measuring Bridge Building in Divided Societies: The Evaluation of Small Scale Cross-Community Projects in Northern Ireland' in Clegg, C. and Poon, H. Civil Society in Scotland and Northern Ireland (Aldershot, Hants, UK and Burlington, US: Ashgate) forthcoming. (Part written before the beginning of the project, locates the proposed methodology in comparative context and reports on selected preliminary findings)

Herbert/Power, with Young and Mahon (from Millward Brown): 'Church activism, voluntary work and political forgiveness: an application of Wuthnow's forgiveness survey to Northern Ireland' in preparation for Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.

Herbert/Power 'The Role of the Voluntary Sector in Community Bridge-Building in Northern Ireland: a report of a longitudinal study' in preparation for Voluntary Action

Power/Herbert 'The Problems and Pitfalls of Evaluation in a Post-Conflict Society: the Case of Northern Ireland' in preparation for American Journal of Evaluation

Academic synthesis paper to be submitted to international peer reviewed journal

Case studies 30 pp for the case studies in Mexico and India - presented at conference and will be posted on IBP website and published in book form

An IDS Working Paper published in September 2006 summarising the research results will serve as a basis for a refereed journal article for submission to World Development to reach a scholarly audience.

(Title: 'Budget Analysis and Policy Advocacy: The Role of Non-Governmental Public Action', IDS Working Paper 279, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies, September 2006.)

A paper based on the research results from India and Mexico is planned for publication in a working paper series of the ESRC Non-Governmental Public Action Programme which again will form the basis for a further refereed journal article. An edited book is due for completion in December 2006 to reach a diverse audience of practitioners, policy makers, academics and students.

"Market Principles, Philanthropic Ideals and Public Service Values in the Public Policy Program at the Central European University", PS: Political Science and Politics in June 2006; accepted and forthcoming 2007.

with Christopher Wright 'The Currency of Change: World Bank Lending and Learning in the Wolfensohn Era', in Diane Stone and Christopher Wright (eds) The World Bank and Governance: A Decade of Reform and Reaction, London, Routledge, 2006: 1-25.

"Think Tanks and Policy Advice in Countries in Transition", in Toru Hashimoto, Stefan Hell and Sang-Woo Nam (eds) Public Policy Research and Training in Vietnam, Asian Development Bank Institute, Tokyo, (ADBI, 2006: 38-109).

J.Street, S.Hague and H. Savigny, 'Playing to the crowd: the role of music and musicians in political participation' British Journal of Politics and International Relations, online 2007, hard copy forthcoming 2008

S. Hague, J.Street and H.Savigny 'The Voice of the people? Musicians as political actors',Cultural Politics, forthcoming

J. Street 'Breaking the silence: the role of music in political thought and action' to Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, forthcoming

Conference papers discussing the theoretical framework and initial observations on methodology have been presented at the Network of Development Researchers III Colloquium, Gregynog, Wales Development conference, Policy and Politics conference, Bristol, July 2006 and the International Society for Third Sector Research conference, Bangkok, July 2006 (two papers).

'Navigating the tensions: a comparison across four countries', paper presented to Citizen Participation in Policy Making, Cinefogo Work-in-Progress seminar, Bristol, 14-15 February 2007.

Serra, L. (2007) 'The role of civil organizations in Nicaragua's development' published in conference proceedings: "Memories of the First Interdisciplinary Research Congress", Central American University, Managua, 9-10 May 2007 (Conference proceedings)

Civil society in Nicaragua: its organisations and state relations, Managua, UCA-FES, 2007 (currently in production).

Presentations

15 and 21 November 2006, African Studies Conference (ASA) international Conference in San Francisco. Paper: 'The growth and dynamism of African Independent Churches (AICs) in Post-Apartheid South Africa'.

22 and 27 July 2007, International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR) Conference, in Leipzig, paper: 'African Independent Churches (AICs) in Post-Apartheid South Africa: New Socio-political Interpretations'

18 and 22 October 2007, ASA International Conference in New York. Paper: 'Negotiating political identities in Post-Apartheid State: the case of African Independent Churches in Soweto'.

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